the squad because they are the new voices of the democratic party. branding these four members of congress the face of the party, it appears to be strategic. how should democrats handle this going into the election year without playing into hands of the administration in. this is intentional on the part of trump s campaign and the republicans. they do want to tie pelosi to these more progressive congresswomen and what they have to do is these member vss have lot of say. their tweets do go viral. when it comes to their work on the hill, i ve spoken to democrats who say what they are getting done is not a whole lot. they are driving the conversation and need to be defended when the president of the united states is tweeting racist things directed at them. there needs to be the democratic party needs to unite around them but also needs to not fall into the republicans strap of trying
they didn t try to step out there with anything particularly controversial to say. and they did not lead with their chins. and that is a danger the democrats sometimes fall prey to. that doesn t mean the squad should shut up. i actually think they responded very well in this situation. and they have a lot of interesting things to say, but they might be smart not to say get into a fight about israel or something like that right now which can be its own form of distraction. the squad when they responded were quite right that what trump was doing was distracting from the real issues. they don t want to also they should not want to also distract. and i think if they can be politically disciplined, and they ve shown some signs of it in recent days, that this will be disastrous for trump next year, because unlike a lot of other trump controversies, send them back is really easy to
who is the standard bearer for the party. nancy pelosi has tried to mar n marginalize the four women prior to the attacks. the lot of the democrats don t want to be tied to these women. they don t want to be called socialist. that s a problem for a lot of these swing district democrats who will be up again in 2020. last word to you steph, do you think there s any good to come of this in terms of uniting the democratic party? there s been a bit of a divide between the squad and nancy pelosi but not right now. it does seem the president s tweets have united the democratic party. it s given them something to hold up and say we don t want to be like that especially going into 2020. in the same way trump has been using racial tactics to try to give himself a strategy going into 2020 it also gives power to the democrats to be the opposite of what the president is doing.
political risk. and nancy pelosi knows that. which is why i think she has committed to not opening an impeachment inquiry andic she will prevail in the end. paul: she s trying to protect those swing district democrats in 2020. but what about the pressure from the left? you have a lot of people who are more coming out for impeachment and saying look, it s our duty under the constitution to do this. how does she hold them off as they continue to build this case through hearings that somehow trump did impeachable offenses. one way she s been doing that is saying look at how much progress we re making in our investigations and we don t want our investigations to be sidetracked by an impeachment inquiry and also there is i think a new popular narrative among some democrats that we just need to open an inquiry and then see where the mood takes us. and i think that s a particularly risky strategy because all the momentum builds toward actual impeachment. paul: my views is once you
impeach. they won tough races in the 2018 elections and represent suburban districts in florida and pennsylvania and california. suburban districts came out for impeachment. pelosi is not protecting her. i think the momentum in recent days is towards impeachment, but i do know also that there are a lot of swing district democrats who aren t ready to go there yet. maybe it s the speaker who is hoping to pick up bucks county and a few more districts and if you impeach, you don t get them. never mind. i think it s like nixon burning the tapes. thank you for coming. thank you for that. the power of one. trump is plexing h iflexing his ramping up tensions with iran. the former director and secretary of defense and chief of staff joins us to talk about the limits or what should be the